Spain, lots of new faces like in Rugby Europe series and due to the clash with WRWC qualifiers. They will be coached by Eusebio Quevedo:María José OrtegaIrene RomeroAnna PuigRaquel GarcíaCarla RodríguezMaitane SalinasMaría CalvoOlivia FresnedaLaura LorenzoCarmen RoderaIngrid AlgarSabina HurtadoNerea AguirreUribarri Barrutieta

http://www.rugbycanada.ca/leagues/newsl ... leagueID=0Despite a handful of players returning to the XVs program ahead of the 2017 WRWC along with an injury to one of the best players in the world, Jen Kish, I think our girls should continue to be a tough one to play against.

Four Olympians (Lauren Doyle, Ryan Carlyle, Joanne Fa'avesi, and Alev Kelter), 2 Rio travelling reserves (Nicole Heavirland and Cheta Emba) and 4 debutants (Kayla Canett, Bulou Mataitoga, Bulou Mataitoga and Nicole Strasko). *Emba has not been actually been capped for USA in 7s. Fa'avesi, Kelter, Tapper, and Kate Zackary are in Europe with the 15s squad and will join the team in Dubai after their game against France on Friday.

Two uncapped players for SA (Christelene Steinhobel and Eloise Webb). Despite what the article says Nadine Roos and Nomsa Mokwai have represented SA before - Mokwai during the 2014 and 2016 Rugby Africa 7s tournaments and Roos during this year's RA 7s tournament.

Ireland and Brazil are now core teams. There are 11 core teams. South Africa is the invited team of Dubai's leg.

Last season the 9 best core teams kept the status and the other 2 spots were decided in the Olympics (1 spot, Brazil) and in the Olympics Qualy (Ireland), with the core teams that failed to finish among the 9 best (Japan and Ireland) having the chance to keep the status on those tournaments.

Now how will it work? Will the Womens Sevens follow the Men's series and have the 11th core team relegated and the winner of a Qualy tournament (just with non-core teams) promoted? Or they will keep the model and those core teams that finish bottom will still have the chance in a Qualy tournament to keep the status?

Armchair Fan wrote:Spain, lots of new faces like in Rugby Europe series and due to the clash with WRWC qualifiers. They will be coached by Eusebio Quevedo:María José OrtegaIrene RomeroAnna PuigRaquel GarcíaCarla RodríguezMaitane SalinasMaría CalvoOlivia FresnedaLaura LorenzoCarmen RoderaIngrid AlgarSabina HurtadoNerea AguirreUribarri Barrutieta

In spite of having hold a training camp with this players, finally Spain will send most of the 7s players who were involved in WRWC qualifiers...